Browsing Faculty of Arts and Sciences by Keyword "Classical studies"
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Ad perpetuitatis memoriam: Citizenship Performance and Social Memory in the Public Sphere at Lepcis Magna
(2022-05-10)This dissertation presents an ‘urban biography’ of the city of Lepcis Magna through in-depth examinations of the architectural, epigraphic, and sculptural record of the city’s three major public spaces: the Old Forum, the ... -
The Books of Numa: Writing, Intellectuals and the Making of Roman Religion
(2013-09-30)This dissertation provides an intellectual and social history of learned writing on Roman religious culture during the late Republic and early Empire. I examine the ways in which an elite learned literature, for which I ... -
Constructing Goddesses: Gender and Politics in Flavian Epic
(2023-05-15)This dissertation focuses on the intersection between divinity, gender, and ideology in Flavian Rome and reveals a shift in the portrayal of Venus, Minerva, Diana, and Juno in the epics of the Flavian period (Valerius ... -
The Cultivation and Conceptualization of Exotic Plants in the Greek and Roman Worlds
(2014-06-06)This dissertation is an investigation into how plants provide a way to explore cultural interactions between Greece and Rome and the east. I use India, a region that remained consistently exotic to most Greeks and Romans ... -
Dental-aspirate presents in Greek and Indo-European
(2023-01-18)This work examines the class of Greek presents in -θε/ο- and, by comparison with cognate formations in the other Indo-European daughter languages, attempts to recover the form and function of the dental aspirate suffix in ... -
Disease and Desire: Perspectives on Addiction from Ancient Greek Poetry, Philosophy, and Medicine
(2022-06-06)This dissertation investigates addiction in the ancient Greco-Roman world, a phenomenon which I show not only existed in the ancient past, but was also conceptualized in unique ways. Based on a method that balances biological ... -
Enslaved to God: Slavery and Divine Despotics in the Shepherd of Hermas
(2023-06-01)Early Christians were not only among the enslaved and enslavers in the ancient Mediterranean world, but some also used the ancient discourse of enslavement to conceptualize believers as enslaved to God and God as an enslaver. ... -
The Ethos of Language and the Ethical Philosophy of Odysseus Elytis
(2014-06-06)My dissertation deals with the ethical philosophy of the Greek poet and Nobel Prize winner Odysseus Elytis (1911-1996). Responding to the "ethical turn" in literary scholarship, I scrutinize the notion of ethos and ethics, ... -
Galen's Anatomy: Audience and Context
(2014-06-06)This dissertation examines Galen of Pergamon's text On Anatomical Procedures (De anatomicis administrationibus) and considers its audience and purpose. The first chapter presents the audience of the text as Galen perceived ... -
The Geography of the Roman World in Statius' Silvae
(2013-09-19)This dissertation examines the poetic construction of geography in Statius' Silvae. As poems composed by Statius to praise his patrons, the Silvae are shaped by the social relationships of first-century Rome and reflect ... -
Imagined Histories: Hellenistic Libraries and the Idea of Greece
(2021-09-10)How did libraries develop from small, private collections into monumental, public libraries in the Greco-Roman world? The standard view is that the Library of Alexandria, founded in Egypt around 300 BCE, was the first great ... -
Indeterminate “Greekness”: A Diasporic and Transnational Poetics
(2022-06-06)As a critical concept, “Greekness” indeterminately characterizes ancient constructions and their contemporary reception histories, rendering it elusive to disciplinary definition. This dissertation reconceives of its ... -
Language and Logic in the Graeco-Arabic Tradition: A History of Propositional Analysis from the Hellenic Commentators on Aristotle to Theories of the Proposition in Arabic Philosophy, 900-1350
(2021-07-12)The present dissertation is a diachronic study of the philosophical problem of predication in the Graeco-Arabic tradition. It traces discussions on the role of the copula in predication from Aristotle and the Greek ... -
Managing the Past: Influences of Achaemenid Imperial Historiography on the Greek Historians of Persia
(2021-01-06)The birth of historiography has sometimes been understood as a primarily Greek phenomenon, to the exclusion or minimization of other cultural inputs. Building on the observations of Arnaldo Momigliano, however, I argue ... -
Nec Curant Carmina Manes: A Contextualized History of the Material Culture of Roman Children’s Burials
(2023-06-01)This dissertation traces the histories of objects that were consciously taken “out” of time. It focuses on the material culture associated with imperial and late antique Roman children’s burials and explores the ways in ... -
On with the Dance! Imagining the Chorus in Augustan Poetry
(2013-09-04)This dissertation investigates how Augustan poetry imagines, redefines and reconfigures the idea of the chorus. It argues that the chorus, a quintessential marker of Greek culture, was translated and transformed into a ... -
Painting Death with the Colors of Life: Funerary Wall Painting in South Italy (IV-II BCE)
(2013-09-26)This dissertation examines the cultural, political, and artistic role of polychrome wall painting from funerary contexts in South Italy during the critical period that spans the crisis of Greek hegemony and the consolidation ... -
Powers of Practice: Michel Foucault and the Politics of Asceticism
(2022-09-07)This dissertation offers a novel re-reading of Michel Foucault’s oeuvre from 1975 – 1984 oriented by his late theory of asceticism. My reading reveals in the late Foucault a method for analysing ethical phenomena founded ... -
Religion in Cicero
(2013-03-08)This study describes the religious content of the Ciceronian corpus and reappraises Cicero’s religious stance. Chapter 1 develops a working definition of religion in terms of interested supernatural agents, briefly situating ... -
Rethinking Athenian Democracy
(2013-03-18)Conventional accounts of classical Athenian democracy represent the assembly as the primary democratic institution in the Athenian political system. This looks reasonable in the light of modern democracy, which has typically ...